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Amendment redirects $1 million in funding to examine how HHS can facilitate ways to include programs for social determinants of health under the same roof as traditional health services, and estimate what amount of additional funding might be required.
Amendment sought to allow grant funds for apprenticeships to be used for apprenticeship programs registered with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) as well as industry-recognized apprenticeship programs.
An amendment numbered 36 printed in Part B of House Report 116-109 to prohibit the use of funds to be used to implement, administer or enforce the Trump administration's short-term, limited duration insurance rule.
Amendment increases funding for the substance abuse and mental health services administration by $6.5 million in order to support youth suicide prevention strategies.
Amendment increases by $2 million the administration for community living aging and disability services programs to support innovative programs that assist young people with developmental disabilities in obtaining and sustaining long term employment, and that prepare employers to support the success of those employees and decreases the general department management account by a similar amount.
Amendment provides additional resources to the CDC to address and better understand the causes of the thousands of sudden unexpected deaths of children and infants that occur annually in the United States.
Amendment funds the Regional Centers of Excellence in Substance Use Disorder Education, which allows the program to increase the amount of education that health professional students receive on substance use disorder, pain management, and addiction.
Amendment provides $2 million in funds to expand the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to include a study of children impacted by a parents substance addiction to better understand the opioid epidemics impact on maltreated children.
Amendment provides $10 million in funding for a new program at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop best practices for emergency treatment and the coordination and continuation of care for overdose patients.
Amendment redirects $5 million in funding within the Departmental Management General Departmental Management account to amplify a public health campaign to promote vaccine usage.